صبح کا ستارہ
واں بھی موجوں کی کشاکش سے جو دل گھبراتاچھوڑ کر بحر کہیں زیب گلو ہو جاتا
English translation
There also if I would have become weary of the waves' struggle; leaving the ocean I would have become some neck's decoration.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 20 in “صبح کا ستارہ” (The Morning Star –Venus) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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